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At the start of the epic, Gilgamesh is said to be a cruel and ruthless ruler who had no regard for anyone but himself. Gilgamesh is two-thirds God and one-third human- thus being his lineage, he believes as if nobody is equal or above him. On Tablet two, a man said to Enkidu, “He will…

In a time when African-Americans were struggling to gain a foothold in american society, a few outstanding figures rose to the surface. One of these figures was Booker T. Washington. He was the leading African- American civil right figure during the late 19th century, and early 20th century. His work as a civil rights activist…

Guy De Maupassant is the author of The Jewelry Story, and he wrote this story in 1883. He was born on August 5, 1850, in the Castle Miromesnil in France. He was a nineteenth-century French writer, who is known as perhaps the best author of the modern short story. His profession started in 1880 in…

Jay Leno is quite an inspiring man. Through his childhood years was lonely yet happy boy. He was forced upon his parents to do certain things he did not want, but he did it until he was forced in not doing it. Jay Leno had a hilarious life growing up and his adventures still reign…

Theatrical Reason In Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes uses his famous reasoning abilities to read a woman in order to solve a problem. After all, according to Holmes a woman’s emotions always give her away, making it easy for him to find Irene Adler’s hidden photograph. The apparently rational assumptions about…

It was published in September of 1890 in New England right after the civil war. During this time period a story with a woman’s point of view was very rare. Sarah Penn who is known as the mother in this short story was a devoted wife who was patiently waiting for a new home that…

Science fiction is a literary genre that is primarily characterized by its exploration of imaginary worlds or futuristic scenarios. It has the ability to both captivate and challenge readers by introducing them to alternative realities that force them to question their own beliefs and assumptions. Ray Bradbury’s short story, “All Summer in a Day,” is…

Romeo and Juliet is an extremely well-known play written by William Shakespeare in the late 1 sass. It is a story about an ancient rivalry between two wealthy families which is defied by two teenage star-crossed lovers who tragically die. The play was set in the Elizabethan era in Verona Italy. Despite that the play…

Deconstructing the black female body in Harriet Jacobs incidents in the life of a slave girl. Making connections: interdisciplinary approaches to cultural diversity 13.1 2011 4-20. Academic search complete. Web. 14 June 2015. This article by Patricia Hopkins discusses the topic of rape and how it affects the way we see one another interracially. it…

The Scarlet Letter Pearls have always held a great price to mankind, but no pearl has ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Nathaniel Hawthorn’s powerful heroine Hester Prone. Her daughter Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one, is an enigmatic character serving entirely as a…